A recent study has revealed that obese men with tall height are at a higher risk of getting affected by blood clots. Apparently, the study only considered 26,000 people from the age of 25 to 97 from a town of Norway making the scope of the study limited to the periphery of Norway.

A report was released by the Interior Department on Wednesday which stated that a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico blew out last April causing the death of 11 workers and it also spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Following the defeat of a shareholder motion that demanded the Norwegian energy firm to leave Alberta's oilsands by Statoil ASA, this was the topic most highlighted at the Company's annual meeting held on Wednesday.

When Vale receives its 22 percent ownership stake, the state’s shareholding will drop to 34.5 percent from 43.8 percent, says Hydro’s main owner, the Norwegian state as it takes part in the rights issue to maintain its stake.

It has been reported that Statoil ASA, the oil giant primarily based in Norway, is currently considering a delay in some natural - gas production in Norway till the year 2012.

TeliaSonera, the Nordic carrier, on Monday deployed in Oslo and Sotckholm, what it says are the world's first two commercial network making the most the LTE wireless technology. The maximum speed that the networks claim are a whopping 100Mbit per second.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said that it was assessing the importance of public health of a mutation of the pandemic H1N1 virus detected in Norway and some other countries.

The WHO has been informed by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health of a mutation of the H1N1 virus found in two patients who have both died. One of them had severe illness.

Norwegian researchers said this week that heart patients in Norway had a higher risk of dying from cancer if they consumed folic acid and vitamin B12 supplements as compared with those who did not take them.

Advisers to Tandberg ASA, a video conferencing firm in Norway, have voiced their demand that Cisco Systems, which is currently one of the suitors looking to acquire the company, should raise its bid to $3 Billion. The demand has come just before the bidding deadline of Monday.

Norway's leading telecom company Telenor has delighted investors and shocked analysts after posting third quarter figures which have managed to beat all estimates. In light of the positive new development, the firm has also increased its 2009 efficiency target figures.